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Mega Millions jackpot soars to $476 million for March 30; no top-prize winners
Star Ledger ^ | March 28, 2012 | By Len Melisurgo

Posted on 03/28/2012 1:21:30 AM PDT by SMGFan

Turns out no one in any state matched all six numbers that were drawn in Tuesday night's massive Mega Millions drawing, so the jackpot will be growing even more massive — to a record-breaking $476 million, according to the New Jersey Lottery, the Pennsylvania Lottery and the official Mega Millions lottery website.

(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: lottery; lotto; megamillions; powerball
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To: ShadowAce
The odds are 500 times greater than if you bought just one ticket.

Nope.

Its not my one ticket against your 500.

Its my one ticket against 175,000,000, and your 500 against 175,000,000.

Again, statistically insignificant.

But, hey, its a semi-free country, do what you like...

51 posted on 03/28/2012 1:31:38 PM PDT by THX 1138 ("Harry, I have a gift.")
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To: SMGFan

An elderly neighbor suggested that all taxes be replaced with a voluntary lottery.

Think about the freedom to choose rather than being forced to subsidize the loose, the lazy and the liberals.

People who are anti-gambling would not be required to participate.

Lotteries could be daily, weekly or monthly and pay-out(s) could be capped (i.e. $100Million) excess revenues would go into the Treasury.

Revenues would pay for education, highways and public safety. NOTHING ELSE!!!!

All useless Federal Departments and regulatory agencies such as the IRS could be abolished.

Lotteries = Liberty;)


52 posted on 03/28/2012 3:20:17 PM PDT by sodpoodle (Newtrition - soul food for a starving America.)
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To: SMGFan

An elderly neighbor suggested that all taxes be replaced with a voluntary lottery.

Think about the freedom to choose rather than being forced to subsidize the loose, the lazy and the liberals.

People who are anti-gambling would not be required to participate.

Lotteries could be daily, weekly or monthly and pay-out(s) could be capped (i.e. $100Million) excess revenues would go into the Treasury.

Revenues would pay for education, highways and public safety. NOTHING ELSE!!!!

All useless Federal Departments and regulatory agencies such as the IRS could be abolished.

Lotteries = Liberty;)


53 posted on 03/28/2012 3:20:45 PM PDT by sodpoodle (Newtrition - soul food for a starving America.)
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To: sodpoodle
Revenues would pay for education, highways and public safety. NOTHING ELSE!!!!

Eliminate education, and we'd be getting somewhere...

54 posted on 03/28/2012 3:22:15 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: SMGFan

Investing in Solyndra before they collapsed would have been a better half-a-billion dollar idea! lol


55 posted on 03/28/2012 3:35:20 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Democrats are dangerous and evil. Republicans are just useless.)
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To: Ol' Sox

Easy cowboy. It was a joke.


56 posted on 03/29/2012 4:43:48 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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To: who knows what evil?

Forgot to add: pay for the MILITARY!!!!!!!!!


57 posted on 03/29/2012 4:53:47 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Newtrition - soul food for a starving America.)
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To: SMGFan
While on my way to the store this morning for groceries, I happened to listen to the news. Top story was the big jackpot. In the second half of the story, they asked some mathematician from some college back East about the odds of winning.

He said your odds of getting in a fatal auto accident while on the way to buy the ticket were better.

Mrs. Hoagy62 says it best: Just throw the ticket money out the window as you drive by the 7-Eleven. It'll have just about the same result.

(That being said...I don't think there's anyone out there who hasn't fantasized about what they'd do if they got a hold of that much money. I know I have.)

58 posted on 03/30/2012 8:31:44 AM PDT by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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To: SMGFan

Up to $640 million now ....


59 posted on 03/30/2012 9:04:36 AM PDT by RedWhiteBlue (Mama tried)
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To: ConservativeWarrior

“The Lottery is a tax on people who are poor at math.”

But to the people that win they think that math is great!


60 posted on 03/30/2012 9:21:00 AM PDT by CodeToad (I'm so right-wing if I lifted my left leg I'd go into a spin.)
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